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there's this: https://www.hnreplies.com I understand it is built by an HN moderator, actually, so somewhat endorsed.

I use hnreplies and quite like it. Another option is https://hnrss.github.io/#reply-feeds which gives you a feed of replies to a user (quite possibly yourself). The RSS option is of course more flexible because you can do whatever you want with the feed but I just read my RSS via email anyways so I just use hnreplies. IIUC it is also faster because it is polling for everyone quite frequently whereas individually polling the RSS feed I would probably do it at a lower interval.

also this chrome extension was mentioned 10 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26590720

that thing steals your session cookie without much asking or explaining

Ooof, sorry for posting it then. Would delete or edit if I could.

I don't there's anything deliberately evil about it, it just happens to be effectively credentials harvesting - your auth cookie ends up on someone else's server. If they get compromised, all those HN accounts get compromised. Some people might be ok with that risk, if aware of it.

I believe Dan Gackle is the only public HN moderator, and that this isn't really endorsed.

and I believe that Dan created the site in question, which is sorta an endorsement of sorts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27555072

Different Dan.

And Scott 'sctb' Bell. Don't think he comments as much though (at least, that I notice/in threads I read). (Oh or actually.. not active since 2019? Maybe you're right.)

Scott left some time ago.

It was built by a different Dan G. but I'm happy to somewhat endorse it.

Amazing how simple it is! Kudos to the author, subscribed.

Thank you for posting this. Signed up!

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